Supreme Court Overturns Convictions in New York Corruption Probe.

The US Supreme Court has overturned the 2018 conviction of Joseph Percoco, a former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was found guilty of accepting $35,000 in payments from a construction company. The court expressed skepticism of the ways federal prosecutors combat public corruption and influence peddling. In a separate case, the court also overturned the fraud conviction of business executive Louis Ciminelli and others who relied on inside information to win a $750 million development contract as part of Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion revitalization project. The court has become increasingly wary of federal prosecutors pursuing public officials for behavior that some justices have considered the normal activity of politics, and not specified in federal statutes.